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xiv, 327 p. ; 23 cm;The form of space / Italo Calvino -- A new golden age / Rudy Rucker -- A serpent with corners (from A tangled tale) / Lewis Carroll -- A positive reminder / J.A. Lindon -- How Kazir won his wife / Raymond Smullyan -- 11 May 1905 (from Einstein's dreams) / Alan Lightman -- Why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands? / Roald Hoffman -- The golden man / Philip K. Dick -- The morphology of the Kirkham wreck / Hilbert Schenck -- Resolution of the paradox: a philosophical puppet play / Abner Shimony -- Parallelism / Piet Hein -- Prelude ... (from Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid) / Douglas Hofstadter -- The third Sally, or the dragons of probability (from The seven Sallies of Trurl and Klapaucius) / Stanislaw Lem -- Concerning irregular figures (from Flatland) / Edwin Abbott Abbott -- The definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- On Fiddib Har (from The planiverse: computer contact with a two-dimensional world) / A.K. Dewdney -- The church of the fourth dimension / Martin Gardner -- The extraordinary hotel, or the thousand and first journey of Ion the Quiet / Stanislaw Lem -- Ten weary, footsore travelers /

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Publisher

New York : J. Wiley

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780471332442

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.52 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14